Ray of Truth

Auschwitz Thrives In Our Midst‍

I say that Auschwitz is an extreme manifestation of an attitude that still thrives in our midst. It shows itself in the treatment of minorities in industrial democra-cies; in education, edu-cation to a humanitarian point of view included, which most of the time consists of turning wonderful young pe

The Silent Dialogue

“The presupposition for this kind of judging is not a highly developed intelligence or sophistication in moral matters, but merely the habit of living together explicitly with oneself, that is, of being engaged in that silent dialogue between me and myself which since Socrates and Plato we usually call thinking.” Hannah Arendt

The Relation to the Book

“The relation to the book has an ontological significance, and this relation is always more or less a religious relation. […] this her-meneutics refuses to trace a neat border between the “holy” text and “profane texts.” The religious relation to the book is found both in the relation to the Book of Books, in other […]

Behind the Crowd

“When she told her French friends about it, they were amazed. ‘You mean you don’t want to fight the occu-pation of your coun-try?’ She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and in-vasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade […]

The Ground of the Future

“When the sailor is out on the ocean, when everything is changing all around him, when the waves are born and die, he does not stare down into the waves, because they are changing. He looks up at the stars. Why? Because they are faith-ful; they have the same location now that they had for […]

Cultured Men

“Are you my listener perhaps what is called a cultured person? Well, I, too am cultur-ed. But if you think that you will come closer to this highest with the help of ‘culture’, you make a great mistake … the love of neigh-bour – is not a product of culture’s highest expression.” Soren Kierkegaard

Hindus call off rally through Christian villages in eastern India

Dayal among three awarded for promoting religious freedom, civil liberties